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  "name": "Barker v. State",
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        "text": "HUMPHREYS, J.\nAppellant was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary in the Miller Circuit Court, June Term, 1918, for the crime of grand larceny.\nThe evidence on behalf of the State tended to show that in May, 1918, appellant took a steer owned by R. M. Pool out of the range on Beech Creek in Miller County, and sold it for $60.\nThe evidence on behalf of appellant tended to show that at the time he took the steer and sold it he believed it was a steer he had previously bought from E. P. Williams.\n. Appellant insists that the court erred in refusing to give instructions Nos. 5 and 6 requested by him for the reason that these instructions presented his phase of the case to the effect that he took and appropriated the steer through an honest mistake. Each instruction embodied a correct statement of the law as applied to appellant\u2019s phase of the case, but the substance of each was contained in the second paragraph of the general instruction given by the court which is as follows: \u2018 \u2018 The court will further tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that the intent to steal is the gist of the crime charged against the defendant, and before you can convict him you must find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt not only that the steer in question was the steer of the witness R. H. Pool, but that the defendant at the time he took it did so with the intention of stealing it. * * *\u201d\nAppellant also insists that the court\u2019 erred in refusing to give instruction No. 2 on reasonable doubt in th\u00e9 form requested by him. As requested it was as follows:\n\u201cThe court instructs the jury that the burden is on the State to prove the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment; and if the evidence fails to satisfy yonr minds beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant, then it is your duty to give him the benefit of the doubt and acquit him. If any reasonable view of the evidence is or can be adopted, which admits of a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant, then it is your duty to adopt such view of the evidence and acquit the defendant.\u201d\nThe court struck out the last sentence and gave the instruction as modified. The sentence stricken out is a reiteration in different language of the subject matter embodied in that part of the instruction given; and a repetition in substance of the instruction on reasonable doubt contained in the general instruction given by the court. The court told the jury in the general instruction that, \u201cIf you entertain a reasonable doubt of his (appellant\u2019s) guilt growing out of the evidence in the case, you will give him the benefit of the doubt and acquit him.\u201d And also instructed the jury in the latter part of the general instruction as follows: \u201cIf you entertain a reasonable doubt as to his (appellant\u2019s) intent, you will give him the benefit of that doubt and acquit him. \u2019 \u2019\nThe case of Tanks v. State, 71 Ark. 459, cited by appellant to support his contention that the modification of instruction No. 2 had the effect of rendering negative the rule on the; subject of reasonable doubt, is not. in point. In the case at bar, the court simply modified the instruction by striking out.the last sentence. In the case cited, the court not only struck out the last sentence but modified it by an addendum which had the effect of rendering negative the rule on the subject of reasonable doubt.\nWe think the rule on the subject of reasonable doubt in the instant case was sufficiently presented to the jury, and that no harmful or prejudicial error was committed by striking out the last sentence of instruction No. 2 and giving the instruction as modified.\nThe judgment is affirmed.",
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        "author": "HUMPHREYS, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Pratt P. Bacon, for appellant.",
      "J.ohn D. Arbuckle, Attorney General, and T. W. Campbell, Assistant, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Barker v. State.\nOpinion delivered September 23, 1918.\n1. Larceny \u2014 intent\u2014instructions.\u2014The refusal of correct instructions in a larceny case embodying the defense that the property alleged to have been stolen was taken by mistake was not prejudicial where the court instructed the jury that the intent to steal is the gist of the offense, and that before the jury can convict they must find that defendant took the property with intent to steal.\n2. Criminal law \u2014 instruction\u2014reasonable doubt. \u2014 Defendant in a larceny case requested the court to charge the jury as follows: \u201cThe court instructs the jury that the burden is on the State to prove the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment; and if the evidence fails to satisfy your minds beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant, then it is your duty to give him the benefit of the doubt and acquit him. If any reasonable view of the evidence is or can be adopted which admits of a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant, then it is your duty to adopt such view of the evidence and acquit the defendant.\u201d The court struck out the sentence italicized, and told the jury further: \u201cIf you entertain a reasonable doubt as to his (defendant\u2019s) intent, you will give him the benefit of that doubt and acquit him.\u201d Held, no error.\nAppeal from Miller Circuit Court; Geo. R. Hayme, Judge;\naffirmed.\nPratt P. Bacon, for appellant.\n1. Appellant honestly believed that the steer was the one he owned and had bought from Williams. This phase should have been submitted to the jury on proper instructions, but the court refused. 98 Ark. 149; 97 Id. 153.\n2. The court erred in amending No. 2. 71 Ark. 459; 128 Id. 35.\nJ.ohn D. Arbuckle, Attorney General, and T. W. Campbell, Assistant, for appellee.\nThe evidence is ample and there is no error in the instructions. 78 Ark. 490; 89 Id. 24; 73 Id. 407; 26 Id. 334; 128 Id. 35, 38."
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